(At Haifa, August 3, 1914).
Social Troubles After the War Both Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha also foretold a period of great social upheaval, conflict and calamity as an inevitable result of the irreligion and prejudices, the ignorance and superstition, prevalent throughout the world.

The great international military conflict was but one phase of this upheaval.

In a Tablet dated January, 1920, He wrote:-- O ye lovers of truth! O ye servants of mankind! As the sweet fragrance of your thoughts and high intentions has breathed upon me, I feel that my soul is irresistibly prompted to communicate with you.
Ponder in your hearts how grievous is the turmoil in which the world is plunged; how the nations of the earth are besmeared with human blood, nay their very soil is turned into clotted gore.

The flame of war has caused so wild a conflagration that the world in its early days, in its middle ages, or in modern times has never witnessed its like.

The millstones of war have ground and crushed many a human head, nay, even more severe has been the lot of these victims.